If I can just throw my two cents into the ring, this is a great tablet.
The $99 E-Fun/NextBook tablet Walmart had on black friday,
I get that you look at the specs, see a quad core chip and then see 1gb ddr3 ram and automatically believe that's just not enough. For people who are adamant about huge games (like Skyrim or something), you're probably not going to be satisfied. My daughter has already played Despicable Me Minion Rush (which if you aren't familiar) is a 3D rendered game and it runs excellent.
As for the OS, I don't get what the difference is between Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 with Bing because as far as I can tell, this is full fat Windows. I can switch between Metro and the standard Windows desktop, standard Explorer, etc. I've been playing with this all day and it's performance is great, which is how I prefer to judge something rather than by looking at it on paper and making assumptions.
So anyway, with full out Windows onboard, i've used my microUSB to USB adapter and have used a keyboard and mouse, and also, i've installed iTunes and tried burning a CD using my LG slim external DVD-RW drive and that worked out just fine. I've also installed Audacity and GIMP and fired those up as well.
I chose to install a 64gb microSD card for the extra storage space because onboard, there's give or take close to 6gb free on the internal storage. If you were to use this tablet for everything except storing a particularly large music or movie library, it's an excellent little laptop replacement, and i'm so glad it's desktop Windows because I have been able to plug my smartphone and other stuff into this and use it with no drama. I intend on getting a keyboard packing case for it and as far as i'm concerned, it will at that point be no different than one of these hybrid laptops.
So, in the notion of using this as a laptop replacement or otherwise as a more daily and important device, allow me to recap that it probably won't run the type of stuff that needs mega resources (again, I site something like Skyrim as an example), but it seems to use GIMP (what I call the open-source Photoshop), Audacity (the sound editor), and iTunes without problems. As far as storage, there's plenty of room for apps and programs, but I don't see using a massive music or movie library unless you have an external hard drive. Again, it's full-on Windows as far as I can tell and it has all the same hardware and software capabilities of any desktop hardware. It's really quite fun
Very very worthwhile purchase.
The $99 E-Fun/NextBook tablet Walmart had on black friday,
I get that you look at the specs, see a quad core chip and then see 1gb ddr3 ram and automatically believe that's just not enough. For people who are adamant about huge games (like Skyrim or something), you're probably not going to be satisfied. My daughter has already played Despicable Me Minion Rush (which if you aren't familiar) is a 3D rendered game and it runs excellent.
As for the OS, I don't get what the difference is between Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 with Bing because as far as I can tell, this is full fat Windows. I can switch between Metro and the standard Windows desktop, standard Explorer, etc. I've been playing with this all day and it's performance is great, which is how I prefer to judge something rather than by looking at it on paper and making assumptions.
So anyway, with full out Windows onboard, i've used my microUSB to USB adapter and have used a keyboard and mouse, and also, i've installed iTunes and tried burning a CD using my LG slim external DVD-RW drive and that worked out just fine. I've also installed Audacity and GIMP and fired those up as well.
I chose to install a 64gb microSD card for the extra storage space because onboard, there's give or take close to 6gb free on the internal storage. If you were to use this tablet for everything except storing a particularly large music or movie library, it's an excellent little laptop replacement, and i'm so glad it's desktop Windows because I have been able to plug my smartphone and other stuff into this and use it with no drama. I intend on getting a keyboard packing case for it and as far as i'm concerned, it will at that point be no different than one of these hybrid laptops.
So, in the notion of using this as a laptop replacement or otherwise as a more daily and important device, allow me to recap that it probably won't run the type of stuff that needs mega resources (again, I site something like Skyrim as an example), but it seems to use GIMP (what I call the open-source Photoshop), Audacity (the sound editor), and iTunes without problems. As far as storage, there's plenty of room for apps and programs, but I don't see using a massive music or movie library unless you have an external hard drive. Again, it's full-on Windows as far as I can tell and it has all the same hardware and software capabilities of any desktop hardware. It's really quite fun
Very very worthwhile purchase.
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